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...Nerofilm). A little German girl dawdling home from school is spoken to by a pudgy, rubber-faced young man; he admires the ball she is bouncing and, whistling a snatch from Peer Gynt in a strange, convulsive way, buys her a funny balloon. Presently you see the ball rolling out of a clump of bushes, the balloon, caught in telegraph wires, bobbing crazily in the wind...
...tune is his undoing. When he goes again to buy a funny balloon, the peddler who sells it to him recognizes his whistle, signals a confrère. The confrère bumps into the villain, slaps on his back a chalk M to identify him. The thieves and beggars follow him, corner him in the storeroom of an office building. They take him off to face their kangaroo court in the cellar of a deserted brewery. His psychopathic defense-"You are criminals because you want to be! I am one because I cannot help it!"-is about to fail...
Jump-Off. On the tenth day, trial balloon observation showed that at 33,000 ft. the wind velocity had dropped, although dust haze hung high in the Himalayas. The expedition's leader, Air-Commodore Peregrine Forbes Morant Fellowes, who had led the party on its hazardous 25-day flight out from England and who won a bar to his D. S. O. in 1918 by bombing the Zeebrugge Lock gates from a nonchalant altitude of 200 ft., took the Puss Moth up once more at 5:30 a. m. for observation...
...Down with the Akron evidently, had gone the 71; among them Lieut. Robert W. Larson, the airplane pilot who only last month flew from the Akron to shore in the Canal Zone to visit his wife; among them Lieut. Wilfred Bushnell, co-winner of last year's International Balloon Races in Switzerland, and youthful Lieut. George C. Calnan who took the Olympic oath for all U. S. entrants in last year's Olympic Games; among them Rear Admiral Moffett, the vigorous, 63-year-old seadog who commanded the U. S. S. Chester during the U. S. occupation...
...Institute of Geographical Exploration. During his short visit here, he was also the guest of honor at an informal dinner given by Theodore Lyman '97, Hollis professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, at the Faculty Club. In his speech, Professor Piccard told the story of his two ascents. "The balloon was only partially filled with hydrogen, so that, as it ascended, it slowly assumed a spherical shape. We were forced to do away with netting, owing to the dangers from the pleats of the deflated balloon. Instead, the gondola was swung from a belt, encircling the lower portion...